Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff
Heinrich Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff (born February 23, 1827 in Hülshoff Castle ; † February 9, 1887 there ) was a royal Prussian district administrator , politician and landowner .
Life
Heinrich-Johann Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff was the eldest of thirteen children of the landowner and politician Werner-Constantin von Droste zu Hülshoff (1798-1867) and his wife Caroline, née Freiin von Wendt (noble family) -Papenhausen (1802-1881). He belonged to the 21st generation of his family and was the oldest nephew of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , whom he accompanied on trips. Younger siblings were Ferdinand von Droste zu Hülshoff , Klemens Friedrich Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff , Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff and Elisabeth von Droste zu Hülshoff . In 1845 he passed the Abitur at the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg . He studied cameralistics and law at the universities of Munich, Bonn and Berlin . He left military service with the 1st Hussars in Münster in 1858 as a prime lieutenant . He married in 1863 with Cäcilie Freiin von Elmendorff , heiress of the property Füchtel and Welpe bei Vechta , with whom he had a son Werner (1872-1945), the heir to the family property, and two daughters. As the eldest son, he took over the family estates Hülshoff, Bettenbrock , Rüschhaus , Schencking (Vögeding) and Brock in 1867 . He had the neo-Gothic house chapel built at Hülshoff Castle. He commissioned the chaplain von Hülshoff, J. Holsenbürger, with the elaboration of the work The Lords v. Eckenbrock (v. Droste-Hülshoff) and their possessions , which his father had started and for which he had written a preface.
Public work
Heinrich Droste zu Hülshoff took public office as head of the Office Roxel and was in 1864, subject to the examination and in 1865 officially district administrator of the district of Münster . In 1860 and 1861 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia as the representative of Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein . From 1873 to 1885 he was an elected member of the Westphalian provincial parliament and chairman of various committees and deputy state marshal (vice-president) in the state of knighthood in the Münster-Ost constituency . In the Kulturkampf he was suspended from work in 1874 because his wife had signed the so-called “ladies' address”, a declaration of solidarity by Westphalian noble ladies in favor of the bishop of Münster, Johannes Bernhard Brinkmann , who had been accused by the Prussian government of alleged embezzlement of church property. In order to protect the property of the church, Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff rented the episcopal Konvikt " Collegium Ludgerianum " in Münster. He successfully defended himself against the confiscation of his furniture. He was a close confidante of the bishop during his exile. Together with Ludwig Windthorst and Hermann von Mallinckrodt , he was one of the founders of the German Center Party and was chairman of the central committee of the Westphalian Center Party. He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the newspaper Westfälischer Merkur and director of the agricultural district association. Heinrich Droste zu Hülshoff was a Knight of Honor of the Sovereign Order of Malta .
Descendants and successors at Gut Hülshoff
Heinrich and Cäcilie had two daughters and a son. The older daughter, Carla, 1865–1940, married the owner of Gut Schwegerhoff in Ostercappeln , Walter von Bothmer -Schwegerhoff - their son Heinrich von Bothmer became the owner of the princely house of the poet, which was looked after by his wife Helene von Bothmer . The younger daughter Maria-Anna, 1866–1947, married to Ferdinand Graf Merveldt , inherited her mother's property Füchtel and Welpe in Vechta .
Heinrich's only son Werner (1872-1945) became a government referendar and was the last lord of Hülshoff and the ancillary estates. Traditionally, he married the godson of his relatives Franziska Countess von Bocholtz-Asseburg, in 1904 the 18-year-old Karolina Countess von Bocholtz- Schede (1886–1916) from another, very wealthy branch of this family . She was a maternal granddaughter of Gisbert of Romberg II. , The main character of the novel Toller Bomberg by Josef Winckler and apparently had a similar temperament: 1909, now 23 years old, it burned with that of Lorraine originating chaplain who gave her French lessons, through and gave birth to an illegitimate child in Paris, which led to the divorce from Werner. Already divorced in 1913 from the father of her child, who was working as a teacher in Paris, she threw herself in front of the train at the Gare d'Orsay in 1916, separated from her family by the First World War .
Werner, socially isolated by these tragic scandals, married his German-Russian housekeeper Magda Mobitz (1892–1975) in 1919. A Catholic marriage was not possible because of the divorce and the lack of church documents about his first marriage; he accepted what is understandable in his case, but contradicted the centuries-old family tradition - the Evangelical denomination of his second wife. Werner and Magda had a daughter, Jutta von Droste zu Hülshoff (1926–2015), who, in 1944, at the age of 18, married the farmer Helfried Stromberg, who was shot in the head, but kept her maiden name. When her father died in 1945 at the age of 19, she inherited the almost 600-year-old family property. As with the change of denomination, this line of succession also contradicted the centuries-old tradition of bequeathing ancestral property to daughters only if they married nobly, but otherwise to the closest male family member. The only male bearer of the name of the same generation was the son of Werner's cousin Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff (author) , who later became head forest master Mariano Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff . Werner's contact with him, the father of Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff and Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff , was broken off due to his years of absence from the war in Russia.
literature
- Genealogical handbook of nobility, Adelslexikon, Vol. III, 1975.
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser, Vol. XVI.
- Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff : Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in the field of tension of her family. Limburg 1997.
- Wilderich from Droste to Hülshoff : 900 years of Droste to Hülshoff . Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-16-8
- Ludwig Ficker, Otto Hellinghaus: The Kulturkampf in Münster. Munster 1928.
- V. Capron: Les derniers from Bocholtz-Meschede. Self-published, Brussels 2005.
- Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 249.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in the tension between her family. Limburg 1997.
- ^ Ludwig Ficker, Otto Hellinghaus: The culture battle in Münster. Munster 1928.
- ^ V. Capron: Les derniers von Bocholtz-Meschede. Self-published, Brussels 2005.
- ↑ According to her cousin Mariano Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff, her father's biological descent was doubted in the family, tape interview with him in 1987, Archive Wilderich Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Droste zu Hülshoff, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Droste zu Hülshoff, Heinrich Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | royal Prussian district administrator, politician and landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hülshoff Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1887 |
| Place of death | Hülshoff Castle |